Connectionists: ANNOUNCEMENT: CLARION tutorial

[Sebastien Helie]

A full-day tutorial on the CLARION cognitive architecture will take  
place on July 23rd 2008 at the 30th Annual Conference of the  
Cognitive Science Society in Washington DC (http://ccc.utexas.edu/ 
cogsci08/index.html). For participants attending the CogSci2008  
conference, the tutorial is free.

This full-day tutorial introduces participants to CLARION, a dual- 
process/dual-representation cognitive architecture that focuses on  
the distinction between explicit and implicit cognitive processes as  
well as their synergistic interactions. CLARION is also integrative,  
involving cognition (reasoning, learning, skill acquisition, etc.),  
motivation, metacognition, and so on.

The presentation will provide a detailed, introductory description,  
along with many simulations, advanced topics, and formal results.  
Although some prior exposure to cognitive architectures and  
artificial neural networks can be helpful, prior understanding of  
these areas is not required, as the full-day format allows a detailed  
presentation of basic, as well as advanced, topics related to  
cognitive modeling using the CLARION cognitive architecture. This  
tutorial will enable participants to apply the basic concepts,  
theories, and computational models of CLARION to their own work.

For registration, go to: http://ccc.utexas.edu/cogsci08/index.html

For more information, please contact Sebastien Helie (helies at rpi.edu)

Sebastien Helie, Nick Wilson, Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Sebastien Helie is a postdoctoral research associate in the  
department of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  
His research interests are mainly related to unsupervised  
connectionist modeling, Bayesian modeling, CLARION, and their  
application to psychology.

Nick Wilson is a Ph.D student in the department of cognitive science  
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His research interests are  
mainly related to human motivation, social cognition, and  
psychological modeling with the CLARION cognitive architecture.

Ron Sun is professor in the department of cognitive science at  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is the creator of the CLARION  
cognitive architecture, and has published numerous papers and books  
regarding CLARION-based models in psychology and artificial  
intelligence.

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Sebastien Helie, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral research associate
Cognitive science department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 108
Troy, NY 12180-3590
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Phone: (518) 276-2692
Fax: (518) 276-3017
E-mail: helies at rpi.edu
Website: http://www.rpi.edu/~helies
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